watch booktv for live coverage. during the second week of march booktv will be live from the tucson festival of books in arizona. among several lawyers featured activity begin, and kristin iverson. also in march the virginia festival of the book begins on wednesday the 20th through sunday, march 24th. this annual event features several authors including douglas brinkley, and congressman john lewis. please let us know about book fairs and festivals in your air and we will add them to our list. post on her wall at facebook.com/booktv or e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> for the next three hours booktv brings your a few panels and other presentations from the 2013 key west literary seminar in florida. first we hear from paul hendrickson, author of hemingway's -- "hemingway's boat". >> good morning, good morning, thank you. i moved up my flight, then go to the airport after, literally right after i spend ten minutes here reading and i am going to read something quite short on the theory that less is more which i try to

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> host: and now joining us again on booktv is senator rand paul. his second book, "government bullies." senator, who are the bullies? >> guest: well, all throughout your government. there's 41 different agencies who carry firearms now in the government. and you say, well, i don't mind the police or the fbi. well, the department of agriculture has a s.w.a.t. team. the fish and wildlife have a s.w.a.t. team. in fact, the fish and wildlife raided gibson guitar with guns drawn, took all their computer equipment and their wood and then didn't let 'em know what they were accused of for a year. but then when they final aaccused them of something, it was breaking a foreign regulation. a law in india they were accused of breaking and penalized in the u.s. for breaking in india. those are the kind of stories we write about. >> host: how come you haven't heard about that before? >> guest: some of them you have heard. one of them's the case of john and judy selling bunnies in a little town in missouri. they were fined $90,

gls well, booktv is on the road. we're in philadelphia at the university of pennsylvania, and we're interviewing some professors who also happen to be authors. and we want to introduce you to the dean of the university of pennsylvania's school of social policy and practice. this is richard gelles on your screen. and one of his books, his most recent, is called "the third lie: why government programs don't work and a blue print for change." dr. gelles, i'm here from the government, and i'm here to help you. is that not true? >> guest: not true. >> host: why not? >> guest: because most government social programs which are designed to help people don't actually help. in some instances it is little more than the, i hate saying this, but the do-gooder full employment act. it provides lots of jobs for people who'd like the help, but at the end of the day if you look at whether the needle has been moved and people have really been helped by substantial government programs and substantial amounts of money, the bottom line is

post them to our wall at facebook.com/booktv or e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> the first ladies that i am drawn to are the ones on the ground floor, the sort of more modern day first ladies are the ones that i can identify with more, people like eleanor roosevelt, jackie kennedy, you know, those are the women whose stories feel close enough to connect with. many of the women in the higher floors on the state floor they seem like characters from a wonderful story because it was such a long time ago. it's history, and you read about it in books. to be in their presence seems a little disconnected. but the first ladies on the ground floor are the ones that i remember. i remember their real stories and their real -- i can picture their lives in an incredible way that makes me think about their challenges and struggles and how they used the space. >> the first ladies, their private and public lives. c-span's teaming up with the white house historical associate for a first-of-its-kind original series. first ladies: influence and image airing over two seasons. season one gips presidents day

watch booktv for live coverage. then during the second week of march, booktv will be live from the tucson festival of books in arizona. among several authors featured with timothy egan and kristin iverson. also in march the virginia festival of the book begins on wednesday, the 20th, and runs through sunday, march 4th. this -- march 24th. this annual event features douglas brinkley and congressman john lewis. please let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area, and we'll add them to our list. post them to our wall at facebook.com/booktv. or e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> you don't always find many newspaper editors in any era embracing investigative reporting. the point we've seen over the years it's not just economics, it's the discomfort that investigative reporting up causes in a newsroom -- often causes in a newsroom because it was troublesome. it's that more than the economics. if you're going to ruffle the feathers of somebody powerful, that gets those people running in to crane to the publisher

first booktv interviewed professor john l. jackson jr. about his book racial paranoia. the interview was conducted at the university of pennsylvania annenberg school of communication. .. is. >> i argue when you think about a country like united states trying to work after its own history of racial antagonism, 1 mile is we transcend to build a multiracial community but posters reality by oppression hopefully we will move beyond it. but they both fall under that umbrella. >> host: go to the second example of a ignoring race. why it's important? >> it is important not to make a fetish but not to discuss it means it is already in the room but we have to be careful that is the historical position we have been through this but now to move forward to pretend we have not run this are already? to know what we want the community to become the look of the differences that divide us. it is a fine ninth to make too much or make a fetish are everyone could have a vested interest. >> host: professor jackson what is the role of political correctness? at. >> guest: it is easy to take th

. >> you are watching booktv. now, amy gutmann come university of pennsylvania talk to the tv about her latest book, "the spirit of compromise." she talked about her role as president at the university. this interview recorded at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia as part of booktv is college series and is about 20 minutes. >> you are watching booktv on c-span 2 and one of the things we like to do is visit college campuses. we contact you professors also authors and showcase books that she may not know about otherwise. we are pleased to be at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia this week and were joined by the president of the university, amy gutmann. she's the author of this book, "the spirit of compromise: why governing demands it and campaigning undermines it." president gutmann, are we a politically compromised? >> guest: we were created in compromise. a lot of people think of the revolutionary war, which separated us from our mother country. but if you recall -- i know you weren't there

booktv@c-span.org. or ask a question via twitter. twitter.com/booktv.it will all begin 15 or 20 minutes when they begin taking your calls. jeff cox, classmate of the president at puno high school. here's a quote and mrs. jeff cox talking. there he had the ability to project cool it seemed to me that almost a nonchalant was all part of the image thing, not just of him, but generally in hawaii, where in my mind there is some line between sophisticated passionate interest slacker or leave the end. exuded sophisticated detachment. he has his act together in a way. he understood how things worked maybe a little better than the rest of them. >> guest: you know, when he 15, 16 years old, just cox decided about his classmate you can see the characteristics today presidency since he hasn't changed all that much. the broader reason for that was attachment has to do with hawaii. as jeff points out there's a native hawaiian beam or whatever else is going to run you just keep cool, man. that is a sensibility that kerry and his buddies, you know, who have some of his

and on booktv.org. >> you're watching booktv. next, booktv sat down with david rothkopf at the miami book fair international which is held annually on the campus of miami-dade college. he talks about his latest book u "power, inc.." and he also responded to viewer questions. it's about a half hour. >> host: on your screen now is the cover of david rothkopf's newest book "power, inc.: the epic rivalry between big business and government and the reckoning that lies ahead." mr. rothkopf, a lot of people think big government and big business go hand in hand. >> guest: well, they do go hand in hand, but government's playing field for power, and so business introduces itself there to guide it in the directions that it wants to go. but, of course, a lot of people in big business or in the financial community would prefer it if they went on in their way unimpeded by government, and so that's another front in this particular power struggle. >> host: one of the points you make in "power, inc." is there are some multi-national corporations

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. >> and now, more from booktv's college series. we sat down with ste nose bibas at the university of pennsylvania's annenberg school for communication to discuss his book, "the machinery of criminal justice." he argues that our criminal justice system has become a process that values efficiency and speedy processing over reforming criminals and healing victims and their families. it's about innocents. it's about ten minutes. >> host: and now joining us on booktv is author and professor stephanos bibas whose new book, "the machinery of criminal justice," is published by oxford university press. professor bibas, do we have an efficient criminal justice system? >> guest: we've got a system tahas moved from what people expect it to be, a public morality play where we blame and punish and then reintegrate people who do wrong and heal victims to one that's been taken over by the lawyers. we have professionals who have maximized the speed of the system. it's hurried plea bar gaining that disposes 19 out of 20 cases. it's cheap, but it's b

an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org. we will get to those very quickly. here are mr. bartlett and mr. steele's book's beginning in 1979, empire, the life, legend and madness of howard hughes. in 1985, nuclear waste in america came out. and in '92," america: what went wrong?" america:who really pays the taxes? america:who stole the dream in 1996, "the great american tax dodge" house spiraling fraud and avoidance are killing fairness, destroying the income tax and costing you, that came out in 2000. critical conditions:how health care in america became big business and bad medicine, 2004, and finally "the betrayal of the american dream" came out in 2012. james steele, the use of the word american and america throughout your books. when did that become a trend for you guys? >> guest: it became a trend in the "america: what went wrong?" book which was a series prior to that inquiry that we expanded into book form. the idea was these books are about average americans for the most part, what they're going through, national in

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org with sweets as at twitter.com/booktv. >> you have got to first of all persuade people that their soul is in dire danger, headed to the ultimate bonfire on the other side of existence. after that you need to label them followers of the devil. so to look for the devil and look at all the deities of the pentium, very complex religion, very elaborate, very well structured and they found -- and the eminent delicatessen of the human condition, and unpredictable issue, the issue exists, there's always more than one side, more than one face to any reality that gives you the wear of appearances, the best laid plans of mice and men, issues the embodiment of the lesson embedded in such things. the folly in being dogmatic, plans to do it like a good teacher, symbolically and for adults, the wisdom of looking at both sides of the question and this is the crossroads where of course the place where human beings get confused. if you are so mischievous, he is not allowed in the house. his place is always on the doorstep because the issue in the house is too tempe

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you can tweet us @booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an e-mail. booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> one of the things you learn he you read about children with alcoholics and people in that kind of family dynamic is that a child like bill clinton begins to feel like he has the responsibility of bringing healing to that family, of redeeming it, of creating honor where there's dishonor. and he's so, he basically sets out to be the person who's going to rescue and redeem the family. he is an incredible student. he's front of his class. he becomes very active in boys' nation which is kind of a junior american legion. gets nominated to go to washington as the quote-unquote boys' nation candidate for u.s. senate. goes to washington. he's already six feet tall. he strides to the front of the line when they go to the white house to see president kennedy, and then when kennedy finishes his speech, bill clinton lopes forward and gets his picture taken with, alongside of john f. kennedy. he's so proud. he's so proud. and he already is dedic

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us@twitter.com/book is tv. >> i wrote the new book. and i did it becauselet see, i was talking to katherine lopez the national review online and she asked me why i wrote it. i said, you bet it is an awakening. stuns me that half around half of the american population completely fell for this empty mantra of hope and change. the obama administration was going to be that transcendent administration. that brought us all together. that is why president obama earned the white house. because he said he was going the great uniter. remember that beautiful inauguration address? it was glorious where he said to conservatives, i want to listen to you especially when we disagree. okay. nice, beautiful. beautiful idea. and he was going meet with conservatives in congress once a week, that was a great idea two. he meet twice. twice, two times. three days after the beautiful speech, the conservatives in congress came to the white house and they had a meeting and eric can cantor, are techlat

twitter.com/booktv. >> joining us again on booktv is underway and paul. his second book, government holies. senator, who are the bullies? >> director of government is 41 different agencies who carry firearms down the government. you say i don't mind the police or fbi. the department of agriculture has a s.w.a.t team. fish and wildlife has a s.w.a.t team. the official wildlife breeder gibson guitar with guns drawn, took all their computer equipment and didn't know for a year. but when a family to send, it is breaking a foreign regulation, airline india they're accused of breaking in penalized for breaking a law in india. those are the stories we write about. >> how come we haven't heard about that before? >> some of them behind. when is the case of john and judy teller died selling in a little town in missouri. they were fined $90,000 for having the wrong permit. the government said you can pay on our website $90,000, but if you don't pay them 30 days canaille of us are that million dollars. this is the kind of stature government is doing to bully people a

. >> you are watching booktv. now alfred zacher presents his thoughts on why some presidents succeed while others fail during their second terms in office. this is about 45 minutes. >> good afternoon. appreciate your being here for this event that we can credit c-span2 for our being here this afternoon. we are familiar with the familiar phrase past is prologue, which is emblazoned on the wall of the national archives. you have heard the phrase history does not repeat itself, it rhymes. this afternoon, with your assistance, i will attempt to apply past prologue to the history of the second term. but i frankly do not understand history rhyming, so that one will be ignored. we are once again facing the challenge of reflecting our president when the wind is too close to call. we do not expect to witness an election won by a landslide. some will look longingly on the time when one candidate dominated the political scene. lyndon johnson readily be barry goldwater and richard nixon overwhelming george mcgovern. in each o

now on booktv sarah gordon talks about religious cases in u.s. history to transform the laws of the country and eliminated protection to religion in the u.s. constitution. this interview part of booktv's college series was recorded at the university of pennsylvania will -- pennsylvania. it's about 20 minutes. >> university of pennsylvania professor sarah gordon, "the spirit of the law" is her most recent book. what do you mean when you talk about the old constitutional world and the new constitutional world when it comes to religion? >> guest: well, for most of her nation's history with the states rather than federal government that controlled access to religious worship, the rights of religious organization and so on, and in the early decades of the 20 century that began to shift. the supreme court applied the national constitutional establishment and exercise clauses of the first amendment against the state, sort of centralizing debates about religion. >> host: but if the states for control, we had it written into our constitution, freedom of r

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or four us at twitter.com/booktv. >> if i have my case coming up, would really lay the lot down what is going on in this country. people have been giving me for a long time, i wish i wasn't on trial. this case is coming up. i did like to ask america was going on. >> his family goes all the way back to when he settled in rhode island, worked his way up, first doing low-level kinds of crime but eventually became the crime boss of new england. with his headquarters on federal hill in providence, rhode island. sometimes people think mob guys are those kind of guys, not true at all. they are people who are incredibly intelligent, they have pull some scams on wall street that would make bernie madoff look like a piker but of course they have traditional kinds of organized-crime which were shaking down people, extortion, they viewed it as just protecting their business from other guys who might try to shake you down and murder for hire etc.. their repertoires grew and grew as a result of trying to protect their turf and their way of doing things. >> mo

the e-mail address, booktv@c-span.org, and the twitter handle, twitter.com/booktv. david maraniss, we'll begin taking those in just a minute. david maraniss, in your book you reference "dreams from my father" quite a bit and either rebut it or support it. here's a little bit from president obama in 2004 talking about his autobiography. >> you know, i just had an appearance on charlie rose, and, you know, he was asking me how does, how does the book connect with your politics? and it's very clear to me that there's a direct line between the subject matter that's contained in "dreams from my father" and the type of politics that i aspire to. because, essentially, what this story is about is a boy born to a father from kenya and a mother from kansas in hawaii with an unusual name -- [laughter] who traveled to indonesia, came back, found himself in chicago working in some of the lowest income neighborhoods in the country, and then traveled back to africa. and somehow was able to weave together a workable meaning for his life as an african-american, as an american and as

[applause] [applause] >> booktv is on facebook. like us and interact with guests and viewers and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. .. >> the dark side of the personal finance industry tonight at 10:00 on after words on c-span2. and look for more book tv online like us on facebook. >> next on book tv, barbara matters seldom editor of scooped recounts the life and career of her late husband, a pulitzer prize-winning reporter jack nelson who died in 2009 at the age of 80. been joined by former president jimmy carter, former mayor of atlanta and u.s. ambassador to the united nations andrew young and former justice department spokesman terry adamson in the discussion of jack nelson's memoir, scoop. the evolution of a seven reporter. it is about an hour. >> good evening, everyone. it's good to have everyone here. my name is sink, and i will be moderating this wonderful panel tonight. and the director of the journalism program at emory. and co-author of a book about news coverage of the civil-rights movement, feat

stephanie mccurry sat down with booktv to discuss the book confederate wreckenning and. it's a little under a half hour. confederate reckoning. power and politicals in the civil war south. the author is history professor stephanie mccurry of the university of pennsylvania. first of all, professor, what is this painting on the front of your book? >> this is a civil war painting of a "battleship" going down. the con fred rate flag going down in flames. it's an al gore call painting. it's not military history. ting tells you about what the book is about. >> professor, if you would start by giving the demographic of the south in 1860. >> that's a crucial question. they went to war, tried to make the new nation, they were smaller than the union to start with roughly 10 million people compare to the union's 22. that was already tough row to hoe. age military -- it isn't as much paid attention to. 4 million of the 10 million people were black and enslaved. when it came time to mobilize the war. they didn't have access to 10 million people. they had access to a white population

you can tweet us @booktv, comment on our facebook wall, or send us an e-mail.ooktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> doug brinkley whose most recent book is this, "cronkite." one word. doug brinkly, if you had to describe walter cronkite's influence in america, how would you do it in 20 words or less? >> 20 words or press, mostt trusted man in america became his moniker, and he wore it pretty well. there was great pressure, but hs carried our country throughd things like the mercury and gemini and apollo missions at their heyday, he was our voice through the civil rightshe movement, the vietnam war, watergate, nixon's resignation, the birth of earth day, even he was the person who brought begin and sadat together which led to the camp david peace accord. so seminal broadcast journalism. the big three are edward r. murrow, walter caron cite and lowell thomas -- cronkite ande lowell thomas. >> how did he get to be that guy? >> you have to condense your stories, you're given about a thousand words, and you can'tf put a lot of adverbs and adjectives in

you can tweet is at booktv. comment on her facebook wall or send us an e-mail. booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> here at the national press club books and authors night we're here with transit, author of "out of the news." you are a former journalist. why? >> why am i a former journalist? because i could not be the mother i wanted to of a small child into the journalism i wanted to do. then i found a really wonderful and fulfilling career as a public-interest lobbyist. but i always was very emotionally attached to journalism. and this book gave me a chance to connect with people, many of whom left journalism at the top of their games with some of the biggest media outlines in the countries. i was able to explore with them their feelings about the profession. this is really media criticism with a human face. so these are wonderful stories, because the lives of journalists are very exciting. and rich. and their reasons were leaving the profession, and sometime they leave and come back, or sometimes they leave and start their own nonprofit inves

us on booktv is an old washington hand, and that is ambassador stuart eizenstat.the jews" is the name of the book. why are you writing a book about the future of the jews? >> we survived 3000 years of calamities, culminating in the holocaust in our own time. and yet we survived and thrived and contribute to society, even though it didn't want us. now we have a whole new set of 21st century challenges, and the question is, having survived those terrible times, can we now survive prosperity, success, and integration? and i look at this from two perspectives. i look at the global forces that affect america, american jews, ma and israel, everything from the shift of power from the united states and the west to china and east, the powers of globalization in the digital era, how to deal with the 1.6 billion muslims in the world, the threats of iranian nuclear power. and i also look at internal threats, low birthrates, assimilation. and again, whether we can in effect succeed at a time when we are more successful than ever in being integrated into our society. it's a new

watch booktv tori live coverage. during the second week of march, booktv will be live from the tucson festival of books in arizona. overall authors featured are you certain iversen. also in march, the virginia us rulebooks it features several authors as well. .. does the booktv.org for more on the television schedule. >> military historian patrick o'donnell recounts the u.s. army at second ranger battalion d co. a.k.a. "dog company". the group was composed of 68 men whose military campaigns during world war ii included landing on the beaches of normandy and the s and to pointe du hoc. it is about 40 minutes and starts right now on booktv. >> it is great to see so many friends here. this is a situation where things of come full cycle, but today is the anniversary of the battle of volusia --fallujah where i was embedded as a combat historian. we went through an aid station that was an al qaeda aid station. there was blood on the floor, cots, quite a situation that was interesting. i will never forget i look on the side

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you can ten us at booktv, comment on our facebook call or send us an e-mail. booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> you don't always find many newspaper editors in any era embracing investigative reporting. the data we have seen over the years is not just economic, the discomfort investigative reporting often causes in the newsroom because it is troublesome. it is fact more than the economics. if you ruffled the feathers of somebody powerful that gets people running in to complain to the publisher and the stories are leaking over the years about those things and very fortunate in the 70s and all our career to work for people who were really strong and upright in that area and let the chips fall where they may. >> pulitzer prize-winning investigative team of bob bartlett and james steele will take your calls, e-mails and tweets on in-depth. the pair who began a collaborative work, are co-authors of eight books, the latest, the trail of the american dream, watch live sunday at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> to climb up those steps and make

watch these programs and more all weekend long on booktv. for complete scheduled visit booktv.org. >> finance starts in the 1930s with sophia quarter ended the spinoff of the 1930s, the 1930s unknown from everything from the hard economic times of the 1930s you see everything from alcoholics anonymous in the 1930s to people thinking they could get rich to various social activist movements, fascism and communism had a huge appeal and there is the fulcrum going on out there. so personal finance out of this over a period of years and her goal is to educate people that the great depression will never happen again. it is a way of its time, the we can teach people certain skills and if they learned the skills we will be okay. >> the dark side of the personal finance industry with helene olen on c-span2 and look for more booktv on line. like us on facebook. >> and now ricardo cortes talk about attempts to prohibit the use of coffee and coca in the u.s. and around the world. ricardo cortes describe secret deals made by top u.s. anti-drug official pe

watch these programs and more all weekend long on booktv. for a complete schedule, visit booktv.org. >> next, from politics & prose bookstore in washington, d.c., thane gustafson looks at how russia's unstable economic and political systems could impact the country's oil output with 12% of the world's oil supply coming from rush b shah, he also explores what this could mean for the global economy. this is a little under an hour. >> a pleasure to see you all here tonight. as we know, happinesses is a relative thing, and i began the day this morning in the dentist's chair having a crown put in, and here by tonight i'm at politics & prose. so i'm a very happy man having gone from one extreme to the other. so it's a special pleasure to welcome you all here tonight and, gosh, standing room only. so this is marvelous. well, i thought i would begin by telling you a few stories about what the book is about and skipping the big structure and simply tell you some stories about some of the people who are in this book, because in the end it's very much

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eastern on booktv on c-span2. .. >> readings, everyone. it's good to see you here. thank you for coming out. i would like to begin with a very warm thanks to brian. where are you? there he is back there. he has to lot to make this happen. also, thanks to end up for that generous and direction. i say we should also give a round of applause to the staff of this museum which keeps america's maritime heritage alive. [applause] no, i am happy to have a chance to talk with you this evening about a part of that maritime heritage which is not always included in american history of the cease. a lot to talk to about this book that i have written, the oldest of rebellion and begin by reminding everybody what happened in that story. just let me summarize what happened. the year is 1839, and this slave the schooner, the on the spot at which in spanish means, kind of a cruel name for a slave ship, i think, contains 53 enslaved africans, 49 of them men and four children including three liberals. they are being carried from havana to another part of cuba where the sugar plantation

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watching booktv on c-span two and one at the national press club for its annual authors night. we are joined by michael gordon of "the new york times." endgame is his most recent book. if you could size this for us, mr. gordon. >> this took me three years. the first comprehensive war in iraq and what makes it unique is that incorporate not only american policymakers, but iraqi leadership. trimester maliki, president telekinetic rivals, adversaries, former insurgents and so i incorporated d., but was going on as i was the account type in the battlefield. i basically covered the war in iraq for "new york times" for the whole conflict. i tried to but it altogether. >> why did you call a "the endgame"? >> i covered the search and because it's the endgame of american military involvement. the last third covers the obama administration. it's not been well covered by the media in terms of what the policy was in iraq and i learned lot doing a. during the campaign, president obama talked about the goal of ending the war in iraq. what i discovered in doing the book is the administration

and thank you c-span and booktv for being here. it's a real honor. and i'm thrilled to be able to share with you "american phoenix: the remarkable story of william skinner, a man who turned disaster into destiny." so one question that every writer gets when people find out that you're writing a book, whether you are at a cocktail party, in the supermarket or on the street is, so, what's your book about? that's a fair question, and a good one, and often extremely challenging to answer. because you've spent thousands of hours writing thousands of words. you have a ton of information in your head. and you are writing one story but that one story includes many other stories. suddenly got to figure out how to condense all this information from all the stores into 15-second soundbite. i've got it down to three. well, seven actually if you include "american phoenix" is about, and one of the things that helped me get there was someone asked me, so, if your book were made into a movie, how would you pitch it? and i answered, the titanic meets rocky. "american

bring you booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books. here are some of the programs look out for this weekend. at 4:30 p.m. eastern, michael gordon discusses his book on "washington journal." mr. gordon details iraq war from 2003 until the withdrawal in 2012. at 11:00 p.m., cindy helms recounting her life as the wife of richard helms. he died in 2002. watch a couple of interviews from the university of pennsylvania. first at 1:00 p.m. eastern, we will talk to richard ellis about why government programs don't work and a blueprint for change. at 1:15 p.m. we will hear from

"after words" errors every weekend on booktv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 and 9 p.m. on sunday and 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch online. beneteau booktv.org and click on "after words" in the booktv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. >> we are here with the author an inside look at the life and work of a federal trial judge. you were brought onto the court in 1994. >> correct. 1994 was nominated by president clinton, recommended by senator moynihan. i've been there the last 18 years. >> your subtitle inside look at the life and work. give me a regular day in the courtroom. >> a regular day in the courtroom. there is no such thing as a regular day in the courtroom. we sentence people jail three or four times a week and we have our share of high-profile trials as we sit in new york city. i had a trial and the bear stearns trial and life in new york city is a very dynamic judgeship because we are pretty much where the action bar. i've had cases you name it we haven't. >> how to use separate your professional and personal life? i'm guessing

or to handle is @booktv. and facebook.com/booktv. you will see it posted right there on our home page. you can add a comment, and we will get to as many of those as possible. back to a breach of trust, senator. a couple more of the ten things. >> congress, by the way, coming out in paperback this january. >> just in time for christmas or the new year. back to ten things congress does not want you to know about how it does business. number four. powerful members of congress and say it's not competitive seats often hold fund-raisers outside their districts to increase their leverage over other members. number five, congress spends more than 100 billion every year on well over 200 programs that are not authorized by law. number six, congress routinely raise the social security trust fund to cover general revenue shortfalls. >> if you look at the appropriation bills which have not been done in the last two years because of the political dynamic that is going on and you go in and say, we are pretty x amount of money and then you look at h

[applause] >> booktv is on facebook. like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. fatebook.com/-- facebook.com/booktv. >> the author of five previous books, her new book is guest of of honor, booker t. washington, theodore roosevelt and the white house dinner that shook the nation. why did this dinner drive the nation nuts? >> this dinner is a remarkable moment in history that has been completely forgotten, and it's because we just don't know about scandals like this. you know, our meter has changed. when booker t. washington walked up the five steps to the white house, he was the very first african-american to be invited to sit at the president's table. it had never happened before. african-americans had been invited to meet with presidents in their offices, they, you know, had business meetings all the time, but no one ever sat at the president's table. and the nation was outraged. it was really astonishing. >> why was he invited, by the way? >> el, booker t -- well, booker t. washington had a very, very succ

you can tweet us at booktv. comment on our facebook wall or send us an e-mail. booktv non-fiction books every weekend on c-span2. >>> you're watching c-span2 with politics and public affairs weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. on weeknights watch key public policy events and every weekend the latest non-fiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past -- program and get our schedule on our website. and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> we're here with author and journalist with the new book. what was so great about the great comprise? >> well, most people say anything about the comprise have vaguest reck lax from perhaps junior high school say there was a crisis in 1850. the nature was the country was in the brink of civil war. most of the political culture and most americans thought war was going to take place. that the deep south was going to succeed. they were closer to possession than most americans today realize. certainly the deep south states, texas was armin

. >> that was "after words," booktv's signature program in which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed by journalists, public policymakers and others familiar with their material. "after words" airs every weekend at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 and 9 p.m. on sunday and 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch "after words" online. go to booktv.org and crook on "-- click on after words on the upper right side of the page. >> over the last few weeks, booktv has aired several best of 2012 book lists which are all available at booktv.org. we also sat down with sarah weinman of publisher or's marketplace to discuss the past year in the literary world. to watch that conversation and more, visit booktv.org. search 2012 year in books. >> you're watching c-span2. with politics and public affairs, weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. on weeknights watch key public policy events and every weekend the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules at our web site, and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. ..

booktv in prime time this week on c-span2. >> someone took a shot and i think there was something like 96 hits and each one came to the group. and to put it simply, a 150 were taken captive. the survivors lay dead in the field and they were fired on by machine guns at close range. machine guns were fired at these men. they fell to the ground. >> december 17, 1944, an american convoy traveling to belgium is spotted and captured by german troops. ginny parker on the massacre on sunday night at nine eastern and pacific. part of american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> our special booktv programming continues in just a moment with peter piot in his career fighting viruses. and a little more than an hour, lori andrews on personal privacy rights and social networking. after that, the swearing in of the governor of new hampshire. >> it will be a busy day tomorrow for members of congress. the house meets at 10:00 a.m. eastern to consider a bill regarding hurricane sandy relief funding. you can see that live on c-span at 10:00 a.m. at one eastern, a joint meeting of congress. he will cou

she talked with booktv at bookexpo america publishing's annual trade show. this is about half an hour. >> bernice king who is edith scott dagley? >> guest: at edith scott bickley -- coretta scott king was the wife of martin luther king jr. -- cohost land your mother. >> guest: yes my mother so she was my aunt. she and my mother grew up in alabama together and she later became a drama professor. in fact she founded the drama department at the state university. she was a very lively woman and unfortunately passed last year in june. after completing this book. >> this book is desert rose the life and legacy of coretta scott king and the author is your aunt eva scott dagley? when did she write this book lacks. >> guest: well it was a journey that began with my mother's requested 1966 to write her story. at that time both of my parents were constantly being threatened. my mother was concerned one that her story be told and she wouldn't be lost in it -- come wanted people to know that she was not just the wife of martin luther king and the mother of his children b

and thank you and thank you, c-span, and booktv for being here. it's a real honor.and i'm thrilled to be able to share with you "american phoenix," -- "american phoenix: the remarkable story of william skinner, a man who turned disaster into destiny." so one question that every writer gets when people find out they have been writing a been writing about been writing about, whether you're at a cocktail party, in the supermarket or on the street, is so, what's your book about. that's a fair question, and a good one, and often extremely challenging to answer. because you've spent thousands of hours writing thousands of words. you have a ton of information in your head. and you are writing one story but that one story includes many other stories. suddenly got to figure out how to convince all this information from all the stores into 15 15-second soundbite. i've got it down to three. well, seven actually if you include "american phoenix" is about, and one of the things that helped me get there was someone asked me, so, if your book were made into a movie, how would you

twitter.com/booktv. >> you've been watching booktv, 48 hours of book programming beginning saturday morning at 8 eastern through monday morning at 8 eastern. nonfiction books all weekend, every weekend right here on c-span2. >> here's a look at what's coming up. next, "the communicators" with a reporters' round table on technology and telecom issues expected to be in play in 2013. then, senator john mccain and others speak at the annual halifax security forum on the u.s. role in global politics. and later we're live from the brookings institution with a forum on potential budget cuts to defense spending and how they could affect the nation's national security. >> host: well, with the 113th congress convening this month, we thought we'd take this opportunity on "the communicators" and look at their legislative agenda and the policy agenda of the federal communications commission. joining us are three reporters who cover technology policy. gautham nagesh of congressional quarterly, what's an issue that you see forthcoming in the next congress? >> guest: well, i think cybersecurity remains the

. >> host: you're watching booktv on c-span2. as 2012 draws to a close one of the things we like to do is look back at the year in nonfiction books and look ahead to 2013. joining us to help us are two guests in our new york studio. sara wine mann is the news director for publishes marketplace and bob mintheimer is being book reviewer and reporter for "usa today." start with you. if you would, give us your general assessment of 2012 for the book industry especially nor nonfiction books and what are one or two notable books you want to talk about? >> guest: let's start off by saying 2012 is very eventful year in the book publishing world between publishers consolidating the department of justice suing five publishers and apple on ebook pricing and many developments which we'll cover later on in the program. amazon expanding its publishing operations. the google settlement also moving forward in different directions. those alone accounted for substantial portion of book publishing news. on the nonfiction front i would have to say i

[applause] >> booktv is on facebook.like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers, watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. face -- facebook.com/booktv. >> 500 days:secrets and lies in the terror wars is the name of the book. kurt join those at the national press club. what a 500 days he referred to? >> this is a book about the period of time between 9/11 and the beginning of the iraq war. we are covering that because this is the period one all the major decisions were made in terms of international policy, around the world, about how the west was going to respond to al qaeda and the 9/11 attacks. >> host: when it comes to president bush and vice president chaney how proactive word they and what did you discover? >> nine 11 there were serious problems, the bush administration received a lot of briefings about the coming attack, was told that there was going to be mass casualties, was told that there was a cell in the united states but members of the pentagon said this was all a big deception being done